Instant cash withdrawals from a bitcoin wallet are now possible with thousands of Spanish ATMs. A user may even choose between different providers – the service is offered by two different bitcoin startups, BTCPoint and Bit2Me.

Marcelo Miranda, MBA and former head of equity trading in the Brazilian division of Deutsche Bank, is setting his sights on conquering the Brazilian digital currency market. On March 5th, he opened a new bitcoin exchange, FlowBTC.

People in Ukraine are turning to bitcoin in their search for a means to preserve their savings while the national currency is heavily affected by the inflation and the capital controls introduced by the authorities.

In its February 2015 report on “virtual currency schemes”, the ECB analyzes existing and potential benefits and threats of cryptocurrencies. It believes them to be insignificant at the moment but potentially dangerous in the future.